San Jose (California) Tourism - Travel to San Jose (California)
San Jose is the largest city in California's Silicon Valley and the southern anchor of the greater San Francisco Bay Area.
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Get into San Jose (California)
People who ask, "Do you know the way to San Jose?" will be Glared At.San Jose is home to one of the Bay Area's three international airports, San Jose International (SJC). The other two are Oakland (OAK) and San Francisco (SFO).
San Jose is also has two commuter rail lines-- Caltrain, which runs up the Peninsula to San Francisco, and a separate Amtrak Capital Corridor line that runs through the East Bay and then inland to Sacramento.
By car, San Jose is connected to San Francisco by the US-101 and Interstate 280 highways. From Los Angeles, take I-5 North to CA-152 West to US-101 North. From the East Bay (California), use either I-880 or I-680 South.
Get around in San Jose (California)
Car will likely be the most convenient method of travel. Yet the local transportation agency, VTA, offers servicable transit downtown. See the 511.org website for trip planning.
See San Jose (California)
- First Street -- downtown offices, shops, and weekly farmer's market.
- Winchester Mystery House, 525 South Winchester Boulevard, (408) 247-2101 http://www.winchestermysteryhouse.com/
- The Tech Museum (Museum of Science and Technology), 201 South Market Street, (408) 294-TECH http://www.thetech.org/
- Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum, 1342 Naglee Ave, http://www.egyptianmuseum.org/
- Berryessa Flea Market, 1590 Berryessa Rd, 1(800) Big-Flea, http://www.sjfm.com/ -- A huge outdoor flea market with California's largest farmer's market. Worthwhile for bargains, but let the buyer beware. Everything from furniture and stereos to haircut salons and massages can be found, if you look hard enough. Spanish is the lingua franca.
Do San Jose (California)
- San Jose is home to professional sports teams in soccer (SJ Earthquakes) and hockey (SJ Sharks).
Events
San Jose plays host to many annual events.
- Further Confusion. January. One of the world's largest convention for fans of furry art, writing, comics, and costuming. http://www.furtherconfusion.org/
- Consonance. March. A mid-sized convention devoted to filking (folk singing with a science fiction theme.) http://www.consonance.org/
- BayCon. May. A long-running, regional science fiction convention. http://www.baycon.org/
- Fanime. May. A very large convention for fans of anime. http://www.fanime.com/
Eat - Travel to San Jose (California)
- Aqui Cal-Mex Grill, 1145 Lincoln Ave, (408) 995-0381 This place serves Mexican food as if it had passed through a fun-house mirror. An early place that used gourmet burrito wraps, what's inside the wraps can come from anywhere on the Pacific Rim: salmon, yellow fin tuna, or plantains. Inexpensive, filling, and unusual!
Sleep - San Jose (California) Tourism
Get out
San Jose is about an hour by car or train from San Francisco or Oakland (but avoid rush hour on US-101).
Less than an hour away over the scenic Santa Cruz Mountains, the small coastal city of Santa Cruz is a nice day trip out San Jose or the first stop on a longer coastal drive to Santa Barbara in the south or the Lost Coast in the north.
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